Horseshoe.



S. GRAGEK.

HORSESHOB.

APPLICATION FILED 0011.15, 1913.

1,1 1 3, 1 17. Patented 0013.6,1914.

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UNTE STA Es rarer OFFI STEVEN G-RACEK, ELIZABETH, PENNSYLVANIA.

HORSESHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedOct. 8, 1914.

Application filed October 15, 1913. Serial No. 795,191.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, STEVEN GRACEK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elizabeth, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Home shoes, of which improvement the following is a specification.

tionconsists in certain features of construction, in certain parts and combination of parts as hereinafter described in this specification and pointed out in the appended claims thereof.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specificatiomlike detail parts in the several views are indicated by like numerals and referred to by such in the specification, the various views illustrated in said drawings being as follows:

Figure 1 is an inverted plan of a shoe having my improvement applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectlonal side elevatlon thereof, on

the line X-X of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is an inverted plan of the front portion of the shoe, having the toe piece detached. Fig.4: is a side elevation, in section on the line VV of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the toe piece. Fig. 6 is a [transverse section through said toe piece.

As shown in said drawings, the shoe 1 having suitable calks QIthereon is provided in front with the two like openings 3 and 3 and the intermediate opening 4, said opening 4 being threaded. Fitted into said open ing 4 is a screw plug or locking pin 5, capable of being adjusted vertically and rotatively, the extended portion thereof being divided to form twin prongs 5" and 5', which before the toe piece is applied to the shoe remain in parallel relation, as shown in Fig. 4.

The toe piece 6, whichmay have a blunt or a sharpened tread edge, is provided with spaced pins 7 and 7, adapted to neatly fit the openings 3 and 3 of the shoe, and is further provided with openings 8 and 8 inclining in opposlte directions from the point 9,

intermediate of said pins, and adapted to receive the prongsof the locking pin.

In applying the toe piece, the same is positioned over the front portion of the shoe,with the point 9 thereof engaging betwen the ends of the prongs5 and 5 of the locking pin, and driven into place, causing the pins 7 and 7 to enter the openings 3 and 3 and the prongs of the locking pin to be spread apart and enter the openings 8 and ,8, projecting slightly through said openings, as shownin Figs. 1 and 2, the

spreading of the prongs inqsaid openings effectually locking the toe piece to the shoe, the projecting ends of the pin prongs becoming battered down, somewhat like that of f riveting, during service, thus more effectually securlng the toe plece to the shoe.

Should the prongs of the pin, when apply- 1 ing the toe piece to the shoe, not properly register with the inclined openings a slight turn of the pin will remedy the difficulty. Again, the pin may be adjusted vertically, by turning, before applying the toe piece so as to increase or decrease the length of the prongs to pass in and through the openings in the toe piece.

When the toe piece becomes so worn from usage as to be unfit for further service, the worn one may be readily removed from the shoe by prying the same therefroinby means of a suitable instrument, during which operation the prongs on the locking pin become straightened out and, in many instances, may be again of service to lockthe new toe piece to the shoe.

Having shown and described my invention, I claim:

1..The combination with a horse shoe having a removable toe piece fitted thereto by pins, said toe piece having oppositely inclined openings formed therethrough intermediate said pins, of a locking pin removably secured to the shoe and provided with prongs extending through said inclined openings of the toe piece.

2. The combination with a horse shoe havlng a removable toe piece fitted thereto by pins, said shoe having a threaded opening formed therein intermediate the pins of the.

toe piece and said toe piece having, oppositely inclined openings therein extending signed my to the threaded opening in the shoe, of a locking pin threadably secured in said shoe opening and having prongs formed thereon.

5 Which extend through the inclined openings of the toe piece.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto name in the presence of two subscribing wltnesses.

STEVEN GRAGEIL Witnesses:

H. T. KALER, HARRY L. MCGUIRE.

Copies of this patent majr be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

